Dreifaltigkeitskirche
Marble-fronted Baroque church crowned by a drum dome and a sweeping fresco of the Holy Trinity.
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This guide to the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Salzburg names the working crew behind a Baroque church whose builders almost never survive in the record. It follows the stonecutters who set the marble drum, the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach on his first Salzburg commission, and the stucco specialists and sculptor who dressed the facade in white, gold, and four allegorical figures. At its center is the painter Johann Michael Rottmayr, working the dome from scaffolding on his first major church commission. Look straight up and trace the rings of figures he laid in, from the drum to the small dove hidden at the very top.
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